United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Forum for African Women Educationists in Malawi (FAWEMA) have developed a gender responsive pedagogy in a radical approach to mainstream gender and gender responsive teaching and learning in public schools. The pedagogy touches on basic idea about the role of gender in the education sector, specifically in schools. UNICEF […]
In continuing commemoration of the International Girl Child Day, which falls on November 11, Plan International Malawi, Mulanje programme area, mobilized girls from four secondary schools for career talks with various corporate companies and hospitality institutions in the district on Wednesday. This is being done under the Plan International’s global theme of GirlsGet Equal campaign […]
Mzuzu University (MZUNI) mathematics lecturer, Rozalia Mughogho says girls need to be provided equal education opportunities like boys for them to attain their potential to contribute to the country’s development. Mughogho, 24, and one of the youngest lecturers at the university, made the remarks Friday when she presided over ‘International Day of a Girl Child […]
The European Union took time on Friday to celebrate the International Day of the Girl at Chibavi Community Day Secondary in the city of Mzuzu. This year’s theme was “Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable”. The function took place side by side with the end of a campaign on gender that was launched a few months […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Ministry of Information, Culture and Communications Technology, Esmie Kainja, has challenged Christian women to assume a leading role in educating women and ending sexual and gender-based violence across the globe. Kainja observed that poverty has a female face in many parts of Africa, including Malawi, because, although they constitute […]
It is believed that if you educate a girl child you educate the whole nation, believing the same, Women of Great Influence (WOGI) has introduced a project under the banner ‘girl child empowerment aimed at giving motivation talks and providing support to girls in various schools across the country. The project is scheduled to be […]
Girls Empowerment Network (Genet), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that promotes girls education, has committed to ensuring that girls are rescued from child marriages in Dowa District for them to continue with their education. Speaking on the sidelines of a two-day girl’s summer camp held at Dowa Secondary School on Monday, Genet project officer Naomi Nkhonjera […]
Peachtree Trust in conjunction with the Peachtree Church from the United States of America has constructed a girls’ hostel at Sokola Community Day Secondary School (CDSS). Built in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mwenemisuku, the hostel will accommodate 96 learners. Speaking during the handover of the facility to government on Friday, Peachtree country director Stella Kasirye said […]
It was all smiles to girls at Bua Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Mchinji, when Pauline Long Entrepreneurship foundation (PLEF) sanitary pads to girls at the school. PLEF was founded by a United Kingdom based TV hosts and philanthropist Pauline Long. Speaking during the ceremony PLEF Executive Director in Malawi Maccollins Mathias Chisale said […]
An organisation called Girls Hope has embarked on girl child empowerment education particularly for those living in rural areas, in a bid to promote and keep them in school. Girls Hope is a non-profit making organization with an aim to help the rural girl child realize her potential, zeal and capabilities in the education sector […]
A youth led Non-Governmental Organization, Ambassadors of God (AOG) has started implementing several projects aimed at improving welfare of school going girls as well as school dropouts in Mtsiriza, Lilongwe district. One of its project is the Muloreni Mtsikana Aphunzile (Let the girl child get an education) which is working towards ensuring girls return to […]
It is the first day of a fresh school year. Pupils of Pende Primary School in Chikwawa District are surprised to see their seemingly ‘new’ teacher in girls’ black uniform dress. Surprisingly this new teacher is carrying a white plastic bag, which appears to have notebooks. She walks towards Standard seven classrooms and settles in […]
American Ambassador to Malawi Virginia Palmer has hailed the leading private owned media house Zodiak Broadcasting Station for its zeal in promoting girls’ education in the country through its initiative dubbed ‘Girl Child Awards’. Among other things the Girl Child Initiative is believed to have accelerated the performance of young girls in various secondary schools […]
Girls Empowerment Network (GENET) has assisted over 100 girls with bicycles in Dowa District since 2017, to ease their mobility to and from school. This is a way of promoting girls education in the district. In an interview on Saturday in the district, GENET Project Officer, Biata Kadammanja said her organisation decided to provide bicycles […]
UNICEF has partnered with New Finance Bank (NFB) and the Ministry of Education by launching a Girls Secondary Education Trust, which is a fundraising campaign that has been set up to provide access to quality education for vulnerable girl students in Malawi. During the launch held at Mount Soche Hotel on Wednesday, UNICEF Malawi’s country […]
Communities surrounding Bua Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Mchinji are asking well wishers for support towards a girls’ hostel project at the school which stalled in October due to financial hiccups. The communities started constructing the girls’ hostels in August this year to prevent girls from walking long distances to school following increasing incidences […]
First Lady Gertrude Mutharika has appealed to chiefs in the country to abolish cultural practices which among others fuel child marriages. She made the appeal at Chisawani Primary School ground in Blantyre during a Women Development Meeting organised to interact with women around Mpemba area. The First Lady said she is always saddened to learn […]
Powerful Chewa king Gawa Undi has called for an immediate abolishment of harmful cultural practices. The king said this in Nkhotakota on Monday when he visited traditional leaders and subjects under him during his 10-day tour to Malawi. “All cultural practices proved harmful by science or anything must be discarded,” said Gawa Undi. He also […]